May is coming to a close. We've had some nice rain and cooler weather and things are blooming like crazy. It's enough to make a person want to stand at the sink and do dishes all day! (Well, maybe not the dishes part, but what a view!)

The good news: it's May 24 and the yellow roses are blooming and beautiful. The bad news: the pink roses seem to be kaput. We think maybe the Carefree Delights have crowded them out. And in fact, the wild roses we love so much are actually climbing the arbor, so we didn't even notice for a while that the pink "real" roses were not coming back. (What's ironic is that the yellow rose bush was given to us free from the garden center because they thought it was dead. We paid good money for the pink one. There's surely a life lesson in there somewhere.)

It rained all day yesterday, and today everything is lush and beautiful. The pinks are the prettiest thing in the garden right now. I love this pot of cosmos, and several varieties of dianthus mingle in the arbor garden.

It has been the most beautiful week in the garden! Perfect weather and everything is bursting into bloom. The Carefree Delight roses are 3 or 4 years old now, and provide color and a great backdrop for everything else. Have to be pruned like crazy, but they're worth it. The broken blue pot holds Neon Star Dianthus. They're hiding under the Dappled Willow bush in the arbor garden, but it's fun to come upon them peeking out when we take our morning and evening strolls through the yard.

We've been taking our coffee and cinnamon tea to the east-facing front porch for coffeebreaks these last few beautiful mornings and decided on a whim to move the bistro set from the back deck to the front porch so we'd have a table for our bagels and mugs. That means the front porch bench got moved to the back deck, and I think it will be a lovely place to sit to catch an evening sunset or early morning breeze.

UPDATE: Here's the front porch...after the bagels and coffee are gone.

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Welcome! We hope you enjoy our garden site.

Ken & Deb

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . And God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so . . . And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1